🔕 Silent, not ringing 🛑 Stopping a sound

unringing

9.8

The stopping of a bell or alarm sound

noun
/ʌnˈrɪŋɪŋ/

: silencio

The unringing of the church bells marked the end of the service.

Examples

After a long day, the unringing of the phone brought her much-needed peace.
There's no unringing that particular bell, so we might as well sing along with it.

Blog text (31)
His decision felt like an unringing of the joyful sounds from their celebration.

Antonyms

to ring

430 1.0

To make a clear sound like a bell that can be heard far away

Surface Forms

unringing singular

unringings plural

Morphology

unringing = ringing (semi-transparent) = un + ring + ing

Formed by 'un-' + the gerund 'ringing'; while the negation 'not ringing' is clear, the intended nuance 'the process of stopping a ringing sound' requires reading 'un-' as a reversal, which may be less predictable for learners.

Etymology

Unringing is made from un- ('not') and ringing, and as a noun it means the act of stopping a bell, phone, or alarm from ringing. So the unringing of something is the process of making it 'not ringing'.